user/sven/linux.git/fs/buffer.c, branch v2.6.30.7

Re-introduce page mapping check in mark_buffer_dirty()

2009-09-09T03:33:19Z

commit 8e9d78edea3ce5c0036f85b93091483f2f15443a upstream. In commit a8e7d49aa7be728c4ae241a75a2a124cdcabc0c5 ("Fix race in create_empty_buffers() vs __set_page_dirty_buffers()"), I removed a test for a NULL page mapping unintentionally when some of the code inside __set_page_dirty() was moved to the callers. That removal generally didn't matter, since a filesystem would serialize truncation (which clears the page mapping) against writing (which marks the buffer dirty), so locking at a higher level (either per-page or an inode at a time) should mean that the buffer page would be stable. And indeed, nothing bad seemed to happen. Except it turns out that apparently reiserfs does something odd when under load and writing out the journal, and we have a number of bugzilla entries that look similar: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13556 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13756 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13876 and it looks like reiserfs depended on that check (the common theme seems to be "data=journal", and a journal writeback during a truncate). I suspect reiserfs should have some additional locking, but in the meantime this should get us back to the pre-2.6.29 behavior. Pattern-pointed-out-by: Roland Kletzing Cc: Jeff Mahoney Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fix nobh_truncate_page() to not pass stack garbage to get_block()

2009-06-06T10:17:25Z

The nobh_truncate_page() function is used by ext2, exofs, and jfs. Of these three, only ext2 and jfs's get_block() function pays attention to bh->b_size --- which is normally always the filesystem blocksize except when the get_block() function is called by either mpage_readpage(), mpage_readpages(), or the direct I/O routines in fs/direct_io.c. Unfortunately, nobh_truncate_page() does not initialize map_bh before calling the filesystem-supplied get_block() function. So ext2 and jfs will try to calculate the number of blocks to map by taking stack garbage and shifting it left by inode->i_blkbits. This should be *mostly* harmless (except the filesystem will do some unnneeded work) unless the stack garbage is less than filesystem's blocksize, in which case maxblocks will be zero, and the attempt to find out whether or not the filesystem has a hole at a given logical block will fail, and the page cache entry might not get zero'ed out. Also if the stack garbage in in map_bh->state happens to have the BH_Mapped bit set, there could be an attempt to call readpage() on a non-existent page, which could cause nobh_truncate_page() to return an error when it should not. Fix this by initializing map_bh->state and map_bh->size. Fortunately, it's probably fairly unlikely that ext2 and jfs users mount with nobh these days. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Dave Kleikamp Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro

mm: close page_mkwrite races

2009-05-02T22:36:09Z

Change page_mkwrite to allow implementations to return with the page locked, and also change it's callers (in page fault paths) to hold the lock until the page is marked dirty. This allows the filesystem to have full control of page dirtying events coming from the VM. Rather than simply hold the page locked over the page_mkwrite call, we call page_mkwrite with the page unlocked and allow callers to return with it locked, so filesystems can avoid LOR conditions with page lock. The problem with the current scheme is this: a filesystem that wants to associate some metadata with a page as long as the page is dirty, will perform this manipulation in its ->page_mkwrite. It currently then must return with the page unlocked and may not hold any other locks (according to existing page_mkwrite convention). In this window, the VM could write out the page, clearing page-dirty. The filesystem has no good way to detect that a dirty pte is about to be attached, so it will happily write out the page, at which point, the filesystem may manipulate the metadata to reflect that the page is no longer dirty. It is not always possible to perform the required metadata manipulation in ->set_page_dirty, because that function cannot block or fail. The filesystem may need to allocate some data structure, for example. And the VM cannot mark the pte dirty before page_mkwrite, because page_mkwrite is allowed to fail, so we must not allow any window where the page could be written to if page_mkwrite does fail. This solution of holding the page locked over the 3 critical operations (page_mkwrite, setting the pte dirty, and finally setting the page dirty) closes out races nicely, preventing page cleaning for writeout being initiated in that window. This provides the filesystem with a strong synchronisation against the VM here. - Sage needs this race closed for ceph filesystem. - Trond for NFS (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12913). - I need it for fsblock. - I suspect other filesystems may need it too (eg. btrfs). - I have converted buffer.c to the new locking. Even simple block allocation under dirty pages might be susceptible to i_size changing under partial page at the end of file (we also have a buffer.c-side problem here, but it cannot be fixed properly without this patch). - Other filesystems (eg. NFS, maybe btrfs) will need to change their page_mkwrite functions themselves. [ This also moves page_mkwrite another step closer to fault, which should eventually allow page_mkwrite to be moved into ->fault, and thus avoiding a filesystem calldown and page lock/unlock cycle in __do_fault. ] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix derefs of NULL ->mapping] Cc: Sage Weil Cc: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Cc: Valdis Kletnieks Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Add block_write_full_page_endio for passing endio handler

2009-04-16T14:47:49Z

block_write_full_page doesn't allow the caller to control what happens when the IO is over. This adds a new call named block_write_full_page_endio so the buffer head end_io handler can be provided by the caller. This will be used by the ext3 data=guarded mode to do i_size updates in a workqueue based end_io handler. end_buffer_async_write is also exported so it can be called to do the dirty work of managing page writeback for the higher level end_io handler. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason Acked-by: Theodore Tso Acked-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

buffer: switch do_emergency_thaw() away from pdflush_operation()

2009-04-15T06:28:12Z

This is (again) a preparatory patch similar to commit a2a9537ac0b37a5da6fbe7e1e9cb06c524d2a9c4. It open codes a simple async way of executing do_thaw_all() out of context, so we can get rid of pdflush. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block_write_full_page: switch synchronous writes to use WRITE_SYNC_PLUG

2009-04-08T17:15:09Z

Now that we have a distinction between WRITE_SYNC and WRITE_SYNC_PLUG, use WRITE_SYNC_PLUG in __block_write_full_page() to avoid unplugging the block device I/O queue between each page that gets flushed out. Otherwise, when we run sync() or fsync() and we need to write out a large number of pages, the block device queue will get unplugged between for every page that is flushed out, which will be a pretty serious performance regression caused by commit a64c8610. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

block: switch sync_dirty_buffer() over to WRITE_SYNC

2009-04-06T15:04:54Z

We should now have the logic in place to handle this properly without regressing on the write performance, so re-enable the sync writes. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

block: fsync_buffers_list() should use SWRITE_SYNC_PLUG

2009-04-06T15:04:53Z

Then it can submit all the buffers without unplugging for each one. We will kick off the pending IO if we come across a new address space. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'ext3-latency-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

2009-04-03T18:10:33Z

* 'ext3-latency-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: ext3: Add replace-on-rename hueristics for data=writeback mode ext3: Add replace-on-truncate hueristics for data=writeback mode ext3: Use WRITE_SYNC for commits which are caused by fsync() block_write_full_page: Use synchronous writes for WBC_SYNC_ALL writebacks

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6

2009-04-03T04:09:10Z

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: Remove two unneeded exports and make two symbols static in fs/mpage.c Cleanup after commit 585d3bc06f4ca57f975a5a1f698f65a45ea66225 Trim includes of fdtable.h Don't crap into descriptor table in binfmt_som Trim includes in binfmt_elf Don't mess with descriptor table in load_elf_binary() Get rid of indirect include of fs_struct.h New helper - current_umask() check_unsafe_exec() doesn't care about signal handlers sharing New locking/refcounting for fs_struct Take fs_struct handling to new file (fs/fs_struct.c) Get rid of bumping fs_struct refcount in pivot_root(2) Kill unsharing fs_struct in __set_personality()